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Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this collection offers a fresh perspective on disability research, showing how theory and data can be brought together in new and exciting ways. Read more...

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Structural Approaches in Public Health has been selected as one of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles 2014!

CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books and digital resources for scholars and students. CHOICE’s annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles reflects the best titles reviewed by CHOICE each year. We are honored that this Routledge title has been selected as one of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles 2014!

The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing has been selected as one of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles 2014!

CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books and digital resources for scholars and students. CHOICE’s annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles reflects the best titles reviewed by CHOICE each year. We are honored that this Routledge title has been selected as one of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles 2014!

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, Moniz and Gorin have updated their text to incorporate health care reform. The authors have also restructured the book to guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the policies are, and how students can influence them... Read more...

Drawing on extensive observational research of the everyday work in a UK hospital, and insights from practice-based approaches and actor network theory, the aim of this book is to lay the empirical and theoretical foundations for a reappraisal of the nursing contribution to society by shining a light on the invisible aspect of nurses’ work. Nurses, it is argued, can be understood as focal actors in health systems and through myriad processes of ‘translational mobilisation’ sustain the networks through which care is organized. Not only is this work an essential driver of action, it also operates as a powerful countervailing force to the centrifugal tendencies inherent in healthcare organisations which, for all their gloss of order and rationality, are in reality very loose arrangements.